I just feel it was a lot truer to the original (and in particular in the visuals) than we had any right to expect from a major studio adaptation.
I do think most of the changes made to the characters/story were for understandable reasons of pacing and movie storytelling. Not that I'm willing to go through and defend them one by one, and I found a few of them dubious myself, but on the whole I found the changes understandable and thought they produced better films than a more rigorous adaptation would have.
In particular, Roderick seems particularly annoyed that Arwen got to, you know, do anything at all before turning up and marrying Aragorn at the end.
>I think the EEs are superb -- flawed, but superb -- and I certainly
>won't judge RotK until I see the "real" version.
Me too. And a lot less flawed than anyone had a right to expect. And a rigorously authentic version would have made for worse films, IMO. Cheers David
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